From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262304AbVDXKSi (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:18:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262303AbVDXKSi (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:18:38 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:132 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262304AbVDXKSb (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:18:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 03:14:47 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport insert_resource Message-Id: <20050424031447.45bb6b60.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050424095223.GA22146@infradead.org> References: <20050415151043.GJ5456@stusta.de> <20050423164411.51d77bf1.akpm@osdl.org> <20050424095223.GA22146@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:44:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. > > > > > > > True, but this looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly > > be using. I'd prefer to see this one get the deprecated_for_modules > > twelve-month treatment. > > Don't you think twelve month is damn long? Two kernel releases seem > like a better policy - extremly long deprecation periods only encourage > people to never look at mainline kernels but just ad vendor trees. A year ago we were at 2.6.6. It's not that long, really. > Note that you're not really helping driver authors by exporting random > kernel symbols We can mark these things as deprecated-in-modules today, to avoid new usages.